Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-31

The small head has two grains abreast,
land contains eighteen ayerage-sized
grains This is a lesson for me. But
suppose we have our ground in good
order, and SOW one bushel of good seed
per acre, and each grain brings stalk,
| and each stalk has a head containing
twenty-five average grains Ito say moth
| ing about the stooling). This would give
| us twenty-five bushels per acre. Now
hold that if we SOW good seed in ground,
at the right time and in the proper way,
nature will bring the return every time.
Three years go sowed five acres of
wheat, one bushel of seed per acre, and
nine acres of the same field one-and-a-
half bushels of seed per acre, this same
variety of wheat. The five acres made
100 bushels of nice plump wheat. The
nine acres made 1O2 bushels of average
wheat.
Four years ago one of my neighbors
hired a drill to SOW his seed with, and
through a mistake he put the bushel
wheel on instead of the pushel and
half wheel. His hand drilled sixteen
acre field one bushei per acre, and told
him there were no sixteen acres in that
field. for it only took sixteen bushels of
wheat to SOW it. But when the man
that owned the drill told him that he
had sowed it with the bushel wheel he
was uneasy. But I helped thresh the
crop and it made thirty-two bushels of
number one wheat per acre.-Corres-
pondent National Stockman.
FEED CHICKENS MEAT.
The Stockman and Farmer says the
most delicious morsel to Il little chick
is worm, and it is amusing to watch
the eagerness with which he will scram-
BILE for one when some other chick has
1t. But. as worms are scarce, it is well
to supply them with animal food arti-
ficially. Meat. if lean, either raw or
cooked is good for them. A piece of
beefsteak. the size of a walnut, if
chopped up into very small PARASITIC
smaller the better-will furnish a very
desirable meal for dozen or more
chicks, and such food should be
given them every day OF two.
Cooked meat, especially if it divides
readily into tibres resembling small
earth worms. is very tempting to them,
and we have seen chicks that seemed
utterly discouraged with the things of
this world, again take a live interest in
it when such food was placed before
them. Do not give much fat meat. 1t
is muscle, bone, and feather-making
material that they need, and fat meat
supplies none of them. Lean meat con-
tains them all.
The growth of calf that is intended
for raising should be pushed from the
time it is weaned until year or so old.
Such treatment not only predisposes
the calf to take on flesh, but the longer
it is continued the sooner the animal
will reach maturity. Anew nubbins of
corn or handful or two of oats given
daily in addition to their grass is the
! best possible food to hasten their growth.
and it is just such combination as will
form flesh and fat.
Calves can be successfully dehorned
|
as soon as the ''button," or the begin
ing of the horn, is grown out enoug oh to
be plainly felt. The skin should be cut
around it, and the knife inserted under
meath, close down to the skull. If it is
not cut down as close as possible,
little stub of a horn will grow, but if all
of the incipient horn is removed, there
will be none. The wound may be
dressed with little warm tar and a
patch of cloth put over it.
! HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
| Oil of lavender will drive away
| flies.
! A refrigerator should be scrubbed at
least once a week.
| The best way to hang up broom is
to screw large picture ring into the
top of the handle.
! Never have dark furniture in the
kitchen; it shows dust much more than
light, and requires double the care.
To stop the bleeding of wound set
a mass of WOODEN rags on fire, and
hold the afflicted part over them in the
smoke
| A tea made of chestnut leaves. and
drank in the place of water, is said to
have cured many obstinate cases of
dropsy.
A tea made of ripe or dried wortle-
berries, and drank in place of water, is
a speedy cure for many forms of scrof-
| ulous difficulties.
When laid away for any length of
time, linen should be washed, rough
dried without bluing, and laid in loose
folds without much weight on it.
Wet or dry, the cookie burs will
ripen in the corn fields. Eternal vigil
ance, and especially at this season of the
year, will effectually eradicate them.
Boiled potatoes ought to be laid out
on plate, and are then as good for
frying or MASKING as if they were fresh
ly cooked. If left heaped up they will
often spoil in one night.